Ernst Zwilling

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Ernst Alexander Zwilling (born September 25, 1904 in Osijek , Austria-Hungary , today: Croatia ; † October 24, 1990 in Baden , Lower Austria ) was an Austrian African explorer and travel writer.

Life

Until he was four years old, Zwilling lived in the Slavonian town of Osijek, where his mother was at home, who came from a wealthy German-speaking merchant family. His father was Viennese by birth and served as a lieutenant colonel in the southeast of the Danube Monarchy. When the father was ordered back to Vienna in 1908, the family first lived in one of the officers' pavilions in the Albrecht barracks in the Prater, and later in an apartment building on the Elisabeth promenade . The little boy preferred to stay with his grandparents in the villa in Hietzing, where his grandfather had him stuff the cartridge cases before he went hunting, and his grandmother read out adventure stories and exotic travel descriptions.

Ernst Zwilling was in Cameroon as early as the 1930s . After the Anschluss in 1938, Zwilling believed in the recovery of the former colonies to the German Reich. In the course of the denazification after the Second World War , however, his attitude played no role. In 1953 he gave the first gorilla to the Schönbrunn Zoo . He made a name for himself as a big game hunter of live animals and was also known in Austria.

In the following period, Zwilling not only wrote travel reports, but also filmed them.

He died in the hospital in Baden near Vienna and was buried in the Hietzingen cemetery .

Works

  • Unforgettable Cameroon. Ten years of wandering and hunting, 1928–1938 , 1940
  • From primeval rooster to gorilla. A hunter's wandering years , 1949
  • Big game hunters in Africa , 1954
  • Steppe days - jungle nights. Trapping and hunting animals in Equatorial Africa , 1954
    • Nuits de brousse , 2012
  • Tropics, jungle, Africa , 1956
  • Among Bushmen and Big Game in Angola , color film, 1957
  • Angola safari , 1958
  • Rei Buba wrote the script. Film work and hunting in the last despot empire of Africa , 1958
  • Rare trophies. Treasures from 20 years of African wandering , 1958
  • Sahara runway , 1959
  • Animal paradise East Africa , 1959
  • Wild Karamoja , 1964
  • Fall for the wild! 50 years of hunting expeditions in Africa , 1991

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Viennese big game hunter returns home. Ten years in the jungle and savannah - How it looks today in the mandate area - France requires proof of Aryan status. In:  Alpenländische Rundschau , No. 789/1938 (15th year), December 24, 1938, p. 9. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / alp.
  2. ↑ See, these are our colonies! What the Ostmark contributed to their exploration. - A contemporary show in the Natural History Museum. In:  Das kleine Volksblatt , No. 347/1939, December 16, 1939, p. 4. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dkv.
personal data
SURNAME Gemini, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zwilling, Ernst Alexander (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian explorer and travel writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Osijek , Croatia
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1990
Place of death Baden (Lower Austria)